Come to UEL, Cyprus DLR 4pm (uni of east london)

[Mark Barrett]

Please forward to others. For an autonomous anti-capitalist peoples' summit.
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*G20 Alternative Summit to Occupy UEL Docklands Site, 4pm on April 1st, and
hold 'cancelled' event
**Indymedia  01.04.2009

**Following the announcement from UEL that they were cancelling the alt
summit, the alt summit website has issued a statement saying they intend to
occupy the university at 4pm April 1st and go ahead with the alternative
summit anyway.*  www.altg20.org.uk

Despite management efforts to shut down the Alternative London Summit on
Wednesday 1st April organisers and speakers are committed to making sure the
event goes ahead at the University of East London as planned.

Occupation commences at 4pm. At 6pm there will be a press conference held at
University of East London in the East Building, room 1.12. Speeches commence
at 6pm across two lecture theatres.

Organisers are appealing to the public to join academics, union
representatives and students in the occupation of the university in order to
ensure that prominent political, scientific, academic and activist speakers
who have remained committed to the event will be free and able to speak as
planned.

It is vital at this pivotal moment in British and world history that we, the
people have a public platform to understand and act on alternative ideas and
strategies for our political, environmental and economic future.

The inconvenient truth that the authorities are so anxious to suppress is
the simple fact that another world is possible!

Despite New Labour’s best efforts to establish corporate control over our
education system, like many other universities across the country the
University of East London is proud of its diversity of ideas, its
intellectual autonomy and freedom of expression.

Free speech still exists in our university and it is our duty to protect
this.

The crucial battleground on April 1st is the Docklands Campus of the
University of East London. Either we lose control to the corporate state or
we defend our sovereignty and therefore defend our traditions of freedom and
democracy across England and Beyond. This is a battle between language and
violence. If armed police are permitted to break the sacred circle of
academic and scientific autonomy England will be a police state.

You may not have been thinking of coming. Please think again.

We are the people. We are the power.
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